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WB Corners Academy receives Donation

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Post date December 5, 2018

Photo by Dan Hockett
West Burlington High School’s ‘Corners Academy at SCC’ receives an $800 donation for the program Wednesday from the Community Foundation of Des Moines County. Front row (l-r): Teresa Garcia, Matt Rinker, WBAHS Principal Bruce Snodgrass, WB English Instructor Vern Reed, Jerry Jochims. Back row (l-r): Mike Shinn, Jerry Parks, Amy O’Brien, and Dennis Wilson.

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WB Schools ‘Corners Academy’ recognized in Ames Tribune newspaper

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Post date December 4, 2018

Click here: “The key is understanding that we all need somebody who won’t give up on us,” Vern Reed said. “They need unconditional love and support. Unconditional love is not in itself enough to change their future, but that opens the door.”

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Census confirms 63% of ‘non-citizens’ on welfare

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Post date December 3, 2018

Click here: A Census Bureau finding shows 63% of non-citizens are using a welfare program, and it grows to 70% for those here 10 years or more, confirming another concern that once immigrants tap into welfare, they don’t get off it.

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GM should repay U.S. taxpayers for bailout

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Post date December 2, 2018

Click here: $11.2 billion in taxpayer money lost saving the company

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2018 Christmas Decorations at the White House

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Post date November 27, 2018

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Politics and Sports: Keep Your Hands Off My Football

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Post date November 26, 2018

Sports has a unique ability to unite our communities and our nation. Until recently, that is. How did sports get so politicized? Clay Travis, host of Outkick the Show, tackles the country’s cultural divide and its effect on our favorite pastime in this short 5-minute video.

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How gun-free zones invite mass shootings

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Post date November 25, 2018

Click here: Of the 97 countries where we identified mass public shootings, the U.S. ranks 64th per capita in its rate of attacks and 65th in fatalities. Major European countries, such as Norway, Finland, France, Switzerland and Russia, all have at least 25 percent higher per capita murder rates from mass public shootings.While Americans are rightly concerned by the increased frequency and severity of mass public shootings, the rest of the world is experiencing much larger increases in per capita rates of attack. The frequency of foreign mass public shootings since 1998 has grown 291 percent faster than in the U.S.

-John R. Lott Jr., president of the Crime Prevention Research Center

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We Just Had Two Years Of Record-Breaking Global Cooling (But Don’t Tell Anyone)

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Post date November 24, 2018

Click here: NASA data show that global temperatures dropped sharply over the past two years. Not that you’d know it, since that wasn’t deemed news. Does that make NASA a global warming denier? Aaron Brown looked at the official NASA global temperature data and noticed something surprising. From February 2016 to February 2018, “global average temperatures dropped by 0.56 degrees Celsius.” That, he notes, is the biggest two-year drop in the past century. “The 2016-2018 Big Chill,” he writes, “was composed of two Little Chills, the biggest five month drop ever (February to June 2016) and the fourth biggest (February to June 2017). A similar event from February to June 2018 would bring global average temperatures below the 1980s average.”

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Lincoln and Thanksgiving: The Origin of an American Holiday

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Post date November 21, 2018

The very first Thanksgiving happened almost 400 years ago – long before the nation was born. How did it evolve into America’s quintessential national holiday? Credit largely goes to two people – one, a name you know; the other, you’ve probably never heard – but should. Melanie Kirkpatrick, senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, gives us the run-down on how a harvest party between Pilgrims and Indians became our oldest national tradition in this short 5-minute video.

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Researchers say Facebook can cause depression

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Post date November 21, 2018

Click here: Spending too much time on “social media” sites like Facebook is making people more than just miserable. It may also be making them depressed. A new study conducted by psychologists at the University of Pennsylvania has shown — for the first time — a causal link between time spent on social media and depression and loneliness, the researchers said.